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The 11th movie isn't out yet, but one former Star Trek writer says it's time for the franchise to make a return to television.

Bryan Fuller, who should have his hands full with ABC's "Pushing Daisies," told MTV that after a three-year absence, it's time to have Star Trek back on the small screen.

"I would love to do another Star Trek series," Fuller told the network. "One where you could go back to the spirit and color of the original 'Star Trek,' because somehow, it got cold over the years."

Not that Fuller doesn't like past Star Trek, especially since he was a writer on "Star Trek: Voyager," the show that pretty much gave him his big break.

"I love ['Star Trek: The Next Generation'], but it's a little cooler and calmer than the ones from the '60s, which were so dynamic and passionate," he said. "['Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'] was the best of the modern ones because it was so emotionally complicated. ['Star Trek: Enterprise'] was the most sterile of all of them, when it should have been the most fun."

The then Paramount Television tried to recapture that spirit with the launch of "Enterprise" in 2001, but many fans said they missed the mark, and the show failed to capture a major audience on UPN, becoming the first Star Trek series since the original to take an early, unplanned exit.

"Star Trek has to recreate itself," Fuller said. "Otherwise, all the characters start to feel the same. You always have a captain, a doctor, a security officer, and you have the same arguments based on those perspectives. It starts to feel too familiar. So all those paradigms where it takes place on a starship have to be shaken up."

The prospect of a series is a little more difficult now than it was in the past, especially now that Viacom has split its movie and television properties, making the movie versions part of the new Paramount, and the television part of CBS Television.

Sadly, all indications are that CBS is not interested in doing a new Star Trek series right now, but they are watching the buzz and the upcoming initial reaction to the next "Star Trek" movie when it premieres next May.

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